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SCIENCE IS ALL OF US
Exhibits and Experiences
Skin serves an important purpose—keeping your insides in and the outside out. It doesn’t say anything about your character or abilities, yet skin color has become linked to power and hierarchy. “Race” isn’t real, biologically, but the experience of racism is as real as it gets. Come explore race through scientific, historical, and cultural lenses, and challenge yourself to explore your biases.
The Science Museum of Minnesota is actively working to undo systems of injustice and inequity. Learn more about our commitment in our Statement on Equity & Inclusion.
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RACE: Are We So Different?
Is race real? Not in the biological sense. But the idea of race has deep and devastating social consequences that harm all of us. Discover the origins of this powerful concept and how its legacy continues today.
The Bias Inside Us
Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service with major support provided by The Otto Bremer Trust.
Learn how to counter your implicit biases around race and identity and start conversations in your community to make it more inclusive of all kinds of people with The Bias Inside Us, a traveling exhibit from The Smithsonian Institution.
Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity
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In the Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity exhibit, interactive displays will help you discover the properties of skin across an array of organisms and examine the meaning humans have associated with skin color.
Green Card STEM Voices
STEM professionals come together to share their immigration journeys. Meet them and learn how immigration has influenced their careers in science and see how they are contributing in their new home countries in the Green Card STEM Voices exhibit.
Colorism
Most people think colorism and racism are the same—but they’re not. Youth discuss how subtle and obvious colorism permeates cultures around the world and causes harm through family dynamics, marketing, and the images we see everyday.
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Membership grants you special virtual events and access to conversations to broaden your horizons when it comes to science and race.
We stand in solidarity with Asian American and Pacific Islander communities everywhere.
At the Science Museum of Minnesota, we condemn violence and work to illuminate and dismantle inequities, inequality, and power imbalances.
